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While most raid guilds come and go quickly, Warriors of Virtue (WoV) has been here since the very beginning. We have the best raid member retention rate on the server with many of our members having been here since the server's inception (6+ years!). Our raiding is for dedicated players, but we also offer a casual environment for those who prefer questing, tradeskilling and instance runs only. To become part of our raid team requires certain levels of skill and dedication, (as well as a raid opening). We are looking to augment the following raiding spots. If you are a skilled player and can raid 2-4 times/week, please post an application in this forum: Dirge, Troubador, Illusionist, Warlock, Conjuror, Mystic, Warden. As always, if you have close real life friends or family within WoV and wish to join for casual instances and socialization, you're welcome to apply and join our casual ranks.
Copied from Eq2wire.com..... Destiny of Velious provides many options for solo and duo players wishing to gear up without stepping into a heroic dungeon.
Public Quests
While we’re disappointed that GU60 did not introduce the Pit of the Awakened Public Quest, briefly seen in Velious beta, the two existing Public Quests remain busy. Even Storm Gorge, which with each subsequent revision seems to become more of a pain-in-the-rump for all but organized raid forces who have long since outgrown it, continues to have a steady stream of visitors showing up for a chance to gear up.
There are two sets of gear rewarded in Public Quests, depending on the level of difficulty the PQ was completed and your level of participation. The lesser set has only white adornment slots, while the better set has both white and yellow adornment slots. A Chestpiece and Weapon are very rare drops which some players have completed hundreds of PQs to acquire. It’s worth pointing out that certain armor only drops in one PQ or the other, while others drop in both.
Crystalline Breaks
There’s also the often overlooked solo/duo Crystalline Breaks dungeon located just off of Ry’Gorr Keep in the Eastern Wastes. It is unlocked via an early Ry’Gorr questline and becomes a normal repeatable dungeon once that questline is completed. Crystalline Breaks is easily soloed but more fun with a duo setup, and is stocked with 4 easy names with considerable upgrades even from Public Quest gear.
Solo Velium Shard Quest
So as you’ve probably heard, a solo shard quest has been added in Game Update 60 to allow solo players to slowly acquire heroic gear. The quest is offered by a Coldain dwarf in Thurgadin Harbor named Bas. You will need at least 10,000 faction with Thurgadin before he will offer you the quest.
Unlike past solo shard quests introduced in TSO, and SF, the Velious Solo Shard Quest puts you in a proper dungeon (a variation on Iceshard Keep), and gives you a choice. While players are welcome to slog through and kill every mob in the zone on their way to the shard chest, this will take a long time due to the high amounts of health each mob has. They don’t put out a lot of damage, as the zone is balanced for solo players, but it is slow going nonetheless.
In keeping with the theme of choices, there are better rewards for not being spotted at all (50 gold and a Cloudy Velium Jewel), and lesser rewards for being noticed but shaking off the enemy (50 gold), although all players will still get a Pure Velium Shard for completing the zone. From Gninja:
Noone says you can’t just go into the zone guns a blazing and get your shard and be done. You can just get addition rewards if you want to take your time and dodge mobs etc. As long as you finish the quest you get the shard no matter what.
NOTE: The Velious Solo Shard is not just one quest, but three on a daily rotation. EQ2 ZAM has a writeup on the three quests. According to Matthios of Butcherblock, if the quest you’ve picked up is not completed correctly, you can end up with an unfinishable zone.
Although you’ll want to visit the 4 factions in Velious — Othmir, Snowfang, Thurgadin, and Ry’Gorr to determine which faction you wish to build first, a devious Gnoll has managed to work out a partnership with the 4 factions and offers almost all gear and adornments in a one-stop-shop on the Thurgadin Harbor docks.
Cloudy Velium Jewels can be turned into any of the 4 Velious factions to gain favor and buy their adornments and other items. Players can already acquire 2 Cloudy Velium Jewels per day from each Public Quest.
But before you drop all those shards on a merchant, you may want to consult your local Tradeskiller who, if he or she has acquired the 3rd edition book from Tradeskill Instances can make much of this armor and jewelry for you for a lot less shards.
I recently spent several hours researching what adornments I wanted to put on my new gear. This required going to multiple pages on multiple sites and manually calculating all the information I needed to know about adornments. This led me to think, there has to be a better way. What resulted from that thought was Dethdlr's Adornment Selector over at EQ2Wire.com. For each slot there is a drop down list for the white and yellow adornments that lets you easily pick which adornment you'd like. Once you select the ones you want, scroll down and click Calculate. Depending on what you selected, you are presented with the name of each adornment, where to get it, what faction level you need, a link to the item on Zam, and the in game item link that can be copy/pasted into the game. It will also show you which stats are effected, how many of each type of shard you need, and what raw transmuted materials you need to make the adornments you selected. It includes links to the DoV yellow adornments as well as the SF adornments for those who prefer to browse the full details prior to choosing. There is a lot of information out on adornments. This attempts to bring all that together in one place that is easy to use. If nothing else, it's at least going to help me pick my own adornments. Right now, it doesn't include the red adornments but I may add that if there is enough interest. I see there is a change coming in GU60 for the adornment system but don't yet know what those changes will be. I'll update this system once it goes live if there are changes that need to be made. Let me know over at EQ2Wire.com if you find it useful.